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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Lorna tell the same day that Riddley's father died?
(a) Why the Dog Hates Night.
(b) Why the Dog Won't Show It's Eyes.
(c) Why the Dog Hates People.
(d) Why the Dog Kills People.

2. What is the usual procedure for getting large objects out of holes?
(a) Lift the object out using all the strong men on the work crew.
(b) Men would get in the hole with pick axes and break the object apart.
(c) Drop large rocks from a crane and break the object into pieces.
(d) If the object was really large, they simply had to leave it in the hole.

3. At the digging why didn't the "littl witey bloak" want the girt big thing?
(a) It is the wrong type of metal.
(b) It is not Eusa's head.
(c) It will take too much manpower to get it out.
(d) Because Riddley's father was killed by it.

4. How did Riddley's mother die and how old was he when she died?
(a) She died in a fire when he was 5.
(b) She died from drowning when he was 8.
(c) She died of coughing sickness when he was 5.
(d) She died in childbirth when he was born.

5. in Lorna's story, how did the man and woman's lives change after they got the 1st knowing?
(a) They made tents and wandered even more than they had before.
(b) They foraged with the dog.
(c) They built a large boat.
(d) They stopped wandering, settled down, raised animals, and grew crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Riddley like to do with the hide of the dog that he killed?

2. After the people in Lorna's story had the 1st knowing for a while what did they begin to wonder?

3. Who was at the digging in Chapter 5 when Riddley arrived?

4. What did Chalker Marchman want done with the big thing that killed Riddley's father?

5. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?

(see the answer key)

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